Many years agon, when I worked as a full-time software developer ("engineer"?), #TechnicalDebt was a much debated topic....

Many years agon, when I worked as a full-time software developer ("engineer"?), #TechnicalDebt was a much debated topic.The awareness of having cut corners, of having applied quick-and-dirty fixes, and of everything piling up, and accumulating, was still there. You knew where your sloppy work resided, and that you "should" straighten things up, and how you might do it (if you only got permission, and a time slot to do it, that is). Now we have "coders", and on top of the technical debt hidden in the code, there is a new #CognitiveDebt, the absence of conceptual understanding from their brains.You never understood how the "AI"-generated code actually works (or seems to work), because most lines of it never passed your gray cells, while you kept boasting of being more "productive" (when was LOC ever a positive measure, by the way?).You're aware that you "should" understand most of how the code works, though, because as sure as hell, bug reports will come inWhen they come in, on top of, a...